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Chapter 62: Forgot to say his lines
Looking at the soldiers with high morale, Buhat and Shaha exchanged a glance. Their Salma was no ordinary soldier.
Making an army combat-ready is neither too difficult nor too easy. It boils down to two aspects: money and a sense of honor. If there is enough money, soldiers will be motivated. If there is enough money, there will be enough food and enough equipment. An army with sufficient money and food will not be weak, even if it is not extremely strong.
Honor is like a buff that makes an army more fanatical and fearless, enabling them to form an unbelievable fighting force.
In modern times, with nationalism deeply ingrained in people's hearts, most modern industrialized countries could produce troops and wage all-out wars with dozens of times greater efficiency than in ancient times. This is the importance of national honor.
Achieving either of these two aspects is very difficult. Take money, for example. Many rulers know that giving soldiers enough money will motivate them, but most are reluctant to do so.
However, this time Livy directly gave away a quarter of Piro's fortune as a reward, which was quite a generous gesture in terms of money.
At the time, Bhatt even advised Levi not to give so much, saying that three or four pagos per soldier would be enough to make them fight to the death. But who knew that Levi would smile and say that being able to fight to the death and igniting their emotions are two different things.
At the time, Bhatt didn't understand what it meant, but now he somewhat understands why Levi was giving out so much money.
"Perhaps I have followed a remarkable ruler." Bhatt silently watched Livy on horseback, sword raised, and the fanatical soldiers before him. It is difficult to instill a sense of honor in an army. Even if you are a descendant of the Sun King, it is difficult to ignite the emotions of an army instantly.
But Li Wei just did it. His first step was to get more money than these soldiers could ever imagine into their hands. Just as Li Wei told him, the first step was to ignite their emotions.
Then Li Wei said he was going to attack Tuli Town. At this moment, the soldiers' emotions were suppressed by him. However, in the next moment, the horse under his horse neighed loudly, he tore his clothes to expose his chest, raised his sword and shouted, and unleashed the power of the Three Symbols comparable to the mid-stage of the Vanpi, pushing the soldiers' emotions up again.
Livi then said, "Those who are willing to fight, follow me." Buhart felt that this sentence was very meaningful. He even thought that Livi's action of raising his horse and sword was deliberately designed because it was very similar to the scene when King Amaya raised his sword and shouted.
Many bards recount the story of King Amaya in the streets, saying that when King Amaya rushed to the aid of the capital of the Sun Wheel Kingdom, he raised his sword and shouted all the way.
The soldiers' emotions were constantly being swayed by Li Wei, and when they finally saw such a similar heroic scene recreated, it was hard not to get carried away.
This is similar to how, if you're playing cards in a quiet teahouse, it's hard to get carried away. But when you go to a professional casino, surrounded by the frenzied emotions and gambling of the people around you, you can't help but get caught up in it, and your emotions get high.
Humans are organisms that are influenced by their surrounding environment.
"Looking back now, it was really a brilliant idea for Salma to spend so much money," Bhatt thought to himself. If Levi hadn't spent so much money in the first step, making these soldiers so excited that they couldn't believe it and igniting their emotions to the extreme, would there have been the same effect if he had just given each person three or four pagos?
It's probably difficult. Sometimes you do some inexplicable things just because you're emotional. If you weren't emotional, some of the things you did before might seem silly to you, and you might even think that your enthusiasm at that time was inexplicable. But when you're emotional, everything is different.
Thinking of all this, Buhart smiled. He looked at Li Wei, who was raising his sword and shouting. At this moment, he truly felt that he had found a great ruler.
On the other side, Shaha didn't think so much. He looked at his good brother-in-law with excitement, his mind filled with the three-elemental power of the mid-stage Vanpi. Once his brother-in-law conquered Tuli Town, wouldn't their family rise to the top and become the in-laws of the town's lord? And the only one at that.
How powerful will the Moyat family be then?
Shaha was breathing heavily.
"Oops, I forgot a line." Li Wei remained seated on his horse, sword raised, shouting, while smiling at the soldiers. He thought to himself that he had actually designed a line when he was handing out money. He felt that saying it then would definitely have an effect. When he handed out the money to the soldiers, they were surprised to see so much money. He then said in a pretentious manner, "I'm giving you the money, I only want the land." Unfortunately, he forgot it earlier.
It's a pity about the line he designed, but it's okay, there will be other opportunities in the future, Li Wei thought with a smile as he rode his horse.
Boom!
Suddenly, there was a knock at the gate. The gatekeeper came in and said that Sakje from the town had sent someone to deliver a message.
"A messenger?" Li Wei put down his sword. Buhart, who was standing next to him, also became nervous upon hearing the news. Did Sakje know that they were going to raise an army tomorrow?
Li Wei was also a little confused. If he knew that he was going to fight tomorrow, and that Sakje was hiding in the city, he really wouldn't have a good chance of dealing with him, since he only had a few dozen soldiers.
"Let him in," Li Wei ordered. The guards outside the gate brought the messenger in, bound hand and foot. The messenger was pale with fright. He knew something was wrong as soon as he arrived at the gate to deliver the message, because he heard the shouts of soldiers inside. He tried to run, but the guards spotted him immediately and grabbed him. There was a letter on his waist, which the guards took and handed to Li Wei.
Li Wei tore open the envelope and began to read the letter. At first, he thought it was Sakje trying to persuade him to surrender, or that he knew about Li Wei's uprising. But as he read it, his face immediately turned ashen. Finally, a powerful burst of blood energy erupted from his palm, shattering the letter into dust.
"What's wrong, Salma? Does Shang Kejie know about our uprising?" Buhart asked, noticing Li Wei's grim expression.
Li Wei didn't speak immediately. His face was ashen, and he sat on his horse, sword raised, lost in thought. After a long while, he slammed the sword to the ground with a bang and cursed, "Sakje, you son of a bitch! Tomorrow I'll slap his wife in front of him!"
These words shocked everyone present. Bukhar and Shah had no idea what letter Sakje had written that had made Levi so furious.
The soldiers, however, paid no attention. They even felt a distance from the noble Prince of the Sun, Li Wei, when they heard him utter such vulgar words. They all shouted that they would storm Tuli Town tomorrow and capture Sakje's wife to warm Li Wei's bed.
"Send out the troops immediately tomorrow morning." Li Wei took a few more deep breaths, then said coldly. He now felt that killing Sakje was too easy. He had to make him roll around on the grasslands before he died.
To prevent the news from leaking out the next day, the soldiers rested in the nearby courtyard, where wine and meat were prepared. The next morning, they would go directly to the western road of the village to the hunting grounds of Sakje.
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